Re: making a column or row unwritable

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 09:59:08PM -0400, Sam Rosenfeld wrote:
> How does one fix column and row labels which sit outside the worksheet?  For
> example, I might have column labels like name, organization, etc, which should
> not be overwritten when entering data or performing any other functions on the
> data in the worksheet.  I have read the manual and am sure that I've missed the
> relevant paragraph.

You can use View -> Freeze Pane to fix columns/rows in place.   The
development series has some support for protecting regions.  As with
Excel you need to protect the sheet (via the sheet mangement dialog)
then any cell marked protected (cell format dialog) becomes
unwritable.

Hope that helps
    Jody